The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center

About SolidFire

• • • • • • • • Founded in 2010 Born out of one of the world’s largest cloud infrastructures HQ: Boulder, CO $150M raised to date World-class executive team – Rackspace, 3PAR, Isilon Systems, LeftHand Networks, Skype 275+ employees globally 700% y/y growth in 2013 Strong original IP portfolio 2

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3 Gartner Recognized SolidFire as a “Visionary” in 2014 Magic Quadrant Ranks #1 Overall in Gartner Critical Capabilities Study

“SolidFire is highly differentiated from its competitors through its scale-out capabilities, rich software features and ability to guarantee storage

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.” “The QoS and multi-tenancy allow customers to run multiple workloads in isolation with guaranteed performance, eliminating disruption or degradation from unwieldy workloads.” -Gartner

Gartner Identified SolidFire Strengths ▪ High Scalability ▪ High Performance ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Emphasis on Keeping Costs Low Included In-line Efficiency Features Guaranteed QoS Design for Multi-Tenancy All-inclusive, Simple Pricing Rich Software Features

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▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ o o Report analyzes 13 SSAs across six high-impact use cases Quantifies product attractiveness against seven critical capabilities that are important to IT leaders.

Overall Use Case Online Transaction Processing Server Virtualization Virtual Desktop Infrastructure High Performance Computing Analytics

Scale Capacity & Performance 1U at a time in a linear fashion. Grow your infrastructure at the same pace as your business needs. Dial in performance at a volume level. Software adjust Storage Capacity and IOPS independently to service the changing application needs.

Automate the entire system via REST-based APIs – just as easily as it is with compute in the cloud today.

4 High Availability that provides consistent performance in good times and bad Deduplication, Compression and Thin Provisioning. Global, inline and no impact to performance .

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Scale-Out Architecture

Starter 5 node SF2405 configuration Linear Scalability 69 TB 60 TB 52 TB 400,000 IOPS 350,000 IOPS 300,000 IOPS 43 TB 5, SF2405 Nodes   43 TB 250,000 IOPS 250,000 IOPS Performance    Nodes are added / removed as demand dictates Performance and capacity instantly available to all volumes Non-disruptive expansion - No stopping, starting or reconfiguring of services 5

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Operational Efficiency (compares 173TB of effective capacity)

375,000 IOPS    Reduce rack space Consume less power Increase performance 6

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52,000 IOPS

SolidFire & Orchestration

Native multi-tenant architecture, best-in-class integrations

Flexibility Control Mixed Workloads Time to Value

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VDI Success Story – Large Global Telco

• 3000 user VDI POD – 200K+ Deployment 2YR • Selected solution after having analyzed and Total Compute: · 12-14 servers · 24-28U rack space completed Proof of Concepts of(18) Hybrid, Traditional Raid, and Flash Array vendors • Power savings key business driver SolidFire and Dell Networking helped cut this in ½ compared to competitive solution. • Replaced existing standard POD which took up 2 44U Racks • Inline efficiency was key benefit achieved greater than 10X • API integration with custom management tool easily achieved with REST API 12-14U of Servers 12-14U of Servers SolidFire nodes 4U total rack space 8

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Primary Data Center 42 U LC-CB-10G-1G-36V SFP 36Port GE V/8Port 1 GE/2Port 10G

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The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center

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